Spectacular Vernaculars

Spectacular Vernaculars
Author: Russell A. Potter
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1995-01-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780791426258

Viewing hip-hop as the postmodern successor to African American culture's Jazz modernism, this book examines hip-hop music's role in the history of the African-American experience.

Spectacular Vernacular

Spectacular Vernacular
Author: Jean-Louis Bourgeois
Publisher: Aperture
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1996
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

In these images, white arabesques dance on red walls, and abacus-like mud colonnades shield farmers from sun and wind; mud is "twisted" into playful columns, sculpted into ornate facade relief, and massed into lofty towers of majestic mosques. This edition's new afterword discusses adobe politics in New Mexico, and illustrates the authors' own adobe home.

The Spectacular of Vernacular

The Spectacular of Vernacular
Author: Camille Washington
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780935640991

Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minn. and three other institutions between January 29, 2011 and March 18, 2012.

Spectacular Blackness

Spectacular Blackness
Author: Amy Abugo Ongiri
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2010
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0813928591

Exploring the interface between the cultural politics of the Black Power and the Black Arts movements and the production of postwar African American popular culture, Amy Ongiri shows how the reliance of Black politics on an oppositional image of African Americans was the formative moment in the construction of "authentic blackness" as a cultural identity. While other books have adopted either a literary approach to the language, poetry, and arts of these movements or a historical analysis of them, Ongiri's captures the cultural and political interconnections of the postwar period by using an interdisciplinary methodology drawn from cinema studies and music theory. She traces the emergence of this Black aesthetic from its origin in the Black Power movement's emphasis on the creation of visual icons and the Black Arts movement's celebration of urban vernacular culture.

The Language of the Sangleys

The Language of the Sangleys
Author: Henning Klöter
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 459
Release: 2011
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9004184937

An incisive, multi-faceted study of a Spanish-Chinese manuscript grammar of the seventeenth century, The Language of the Sangleys presents a fascinating, new chapter in the history of Chinese and general linguistics.

Vernacular Modernism

Vernacular Modernism
Author: Maiken Umbach
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780804753432

Vernacular Modernism advocates a rethinking of the importance of the vernacular as part of the modernist discourse of place, from art to literature, from architectural to social practice.

American Vernacular

American Vernacular
Author: Frank Maresca
Publisher: Bulfinch Press
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2002
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780821227800

A groundbreaking retrospective of art from "off the beaten path" sculpture features spectacular images from a wide variety of American artists and craftspeople, in a study that includes everything from religious totems and antique trade signs to hand-carved canes. 12,500 first printing.

Spectacular Happiness

Spectacular Happiness
Author: Peter D. Kramer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2002-06-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0743223241

Finding himself the idealized center of a media circus, a terrorist who is also an English professor recounts his exploits in a letter to his estranged son. In this fictional debut, the author of "Listening to Prozac" brilliantly illuminates contemporary sensibilities and their often astonishing effects on the way lives unfold.

Flappers 2 Rappers

Flappers 2 Rappers
Author: Tom Dalzell
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2012-03-07
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0486121623

Entertaining, highly readable book pulses with the vernacular of young Americans from the end of the 19th century to the present. Alphabetical listings for each decade, plus fascinating sidebars about language and culture.

The Global Spectacular

The Global Spectacular
Author: Karen Exell
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Limited
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781848222496

"This book provides, for the first time, a visual documentation of the wave of 'starchitect' designed museums under construction in certain Arabian Peninsula states, in China, and emerging economies, such as Azerbaijan and India. It offers a sustained architectural critique of the style of these new museums and suggests they represent a new dynamic in the production of cultural spaces. Karen Exell argues projects and finished buildings by the likes of Jean Nouvel, Frank Gehry and Norman Foster+Associates are less connected to regional cultural production than to globalized capitalist modernity, and contrasts this globalised aesthetic with the architecture of smaller museums that responds to more traditional regional materials and construction methods. These projects are less well known, but no less striking in their thoughtful and richly contextualised architectural approach, and reveal a nuanced interpretation of the role and function of contemporary museums. For anyone seeking to understand the profusion of grand architectural projects within the cultural sector of emerging economies, The Global Spectacular provides invaluable insight into the varying socio-economic contexts driving their development and poses vital questions about their likely impact."--Page 4 of cover.